OU hits enrollment high

Enrollment at
Ohio University hit a record high of 38,297 for
its Athens and five regional campuses this fall.

That's a slightly more than 2 percent increase over last year.

“This year’s freshman class grew nearly 9.5 percent, was the largest application pool and the
largest, most diverse and highest quality in the history of the University” Craig Cornell, OU's
vice provost for enrollment management said in a release this morning.

The university received a record 20,771 applications -- a 19 percent increase over last
year.

"This includes many milestones: 50 percent more out-of-state applications; seven percent
more in-state applications; 44 percent more applications from multicultural students and 13.4
percent more international applications from 85 different countries," President Roderick J. McDavis
said.